what are your thoughts on half-life?

[NT]

the game series
ive never played it but it looks really fun

 

[Stephen]

HL1 and opposing force deathmatch basically clear everything else, they’re loads of fun especially on servers where you automatically get the long jump module

 

[drcobson]

What did I do?

You didn't do anything you bumbling ignorant. I just said that you might be interested in buying the game after seeing someone play it. I'm just telling that you shouldn't buy it, because it's not good.

 

[Fortuna]

You didn't do anything you bumbling ignorant. I just said that you might be interested in buying the game after seeing someone play it. I'm just telling that you shouldn't buy it, because it's not good.

Well why do you keep insulting me? I've already seen someone play it so why would I buy it? I don't even like shooters.

 

[SmallAnus]

Remakes tend to be awful in general, I don't think I've ever played a good one. I thought black mesa was cool when I was like 12 but I realized how much worse it was when I actually played it years later.

I don't like Black Mesa either. The best part is that it was the first Half Life game I ever played, apart from Half Life 2 when I was 10 but I never got past the first chapter. I prefer Half Life 1 over it. I don't know why but I just don't like Black Mesa. It feels wrong compared to the gem from '98. It's probably good for people who have never played Half Life before like me but it will never replace the official games

 

[Hagon]

Also nobody ever talks about decay but I played it on the ps2 with my brother when I was little but I barely remember anything from it.

 

[SmallAnus]

Also nobody ever talks about decay but I played it on the ps2 with my brother when I was little but I barely remember anything from it.

The forgotten Half Life game or something. They should've released it on PC

 

[drcobson]

I've already seen someone play it so why would I buy it?

 

[Stephen]

Also nobody ever talks about decay but I played it on the ps2 with my brother when I was little but I barely remember anything from it.

I played the first few levels with my sister years ago but we never got around to completing it
Makes me wonder if Collette is ever gonna return

 

[drcobson]

Makes me wonder if Collette is ever gonna return

No. You will also never see Shepherd or Barney again.

 

[Fortuna]

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I don't understand why you're getting upset with me. I'm sorry.

 

[Steve]

Remakes tend to be awful in general, I don't think I've ever played a good one. I thought black mesa was cool when I was like 12 but I realized how much worse it was when I actually played it years later.

The first time I had played black mesa was not too long ago, I expected it to be good because all the people raved about it, and also know I was already a die hard fan of the original and the expansions by now so I practically know the game by heart. Every single change crowbar collective made was for the worse, and the changes they could've made to improve the game they didn't make. Every single puzzle was removed from the game and replaced with plugs, so many plug puzzles, and think of a room that could've got fixed like the first room of Apprehension went mostly unchanged and they added a crappy physics puzzle. Your arsenal is so gimped too saying how they cut your ammo reserves in half for all your guns forcing you to never use your good weapons. The only part of the game where its better than the OG is in Interloper because all of Xen was rushed in the original, but even then you don't get any ammo for all of Xen until the Nihalinth fight so all they let you use is the damn gluon gun because they give you infinite ammo. Xen drags on for too long and Gonarch's lair is basically an autoscroller instead of a boss fight. Every layout change made in Black Mesa is for the worse too I can not think of a single place all game where the layout was improved; another thing is that the marines don't act right and with how much the game loves to spam marines its a big problem because they move AND shoot which removed their balance from the original half life, turns the game kind of into a cover shooter because you constantly need to duck even though Half Life was built off Quake, Black Mesa just downgrades the game.

 

[Hagon]

I don't like Black Mesa either. The best part is that it was the first Half Life game I ever played, apart from Half Life 2 when I was 10 but I never got past the first chapter. I prefer Half Life 1 over it. I don't know why but I just don't like Black Mesa. It feels wrong compared to the gem from '98. It's probably good for people who have never played Half Life before like me but it will never replace the official games

Sovless slop from people who had nothing to do with the original and serves no real purpose other than making the game accessible to people who will die if they play a game with less than 4 trillion polygons in every model, was never going to capture what made the original great. Also every good game was made with crunch, but black mesa took like 10 years to make.

I played the first few levels with my sister years ago but we never got around to completing it
Makes me wonder if Collette is ever gonna return

I hope not. They need to bring Adrian back first.

 

[SmallAnus]

Sovless slop from people who had nothing to do with the original and serves no real purpose other than making the game accessible to people who will die if they play a game with less than 4 trillion polygons in every model, was never going to capture what made the original great. Also every good game was made with crunch, but black mesa took like 10 years to make.

There was never a need for a remake. Even that Nvidia RTX Remix shit would make a better "remaster" than Black Mesa. I hate how they changed the layout and kinda ruined the pacing a bit compared to the original Half Life

I hope not. They need to bring Adrian back first.

I hope Adrivn Shvphvrd comes back in Half Life 3 but I have a feeling Valve doesn't even know or care that he exists

 

[Hagon]

The first time I had played black mesa was not too long ago, I expected it to be good because all the people raved about it, and also know I was already a die hard fan of the original and the expansions by now so I practically know the game by heart. Every single change crowbar collective made was for the worse, and the changes they could've made to improve the game they didn't make. Every single puzzle was removed from the game and replaced with plugs, so many plug puzzles, and think of a room that could've got fixed like the first room of Apprehension went mostly unchanged and they added a crappy physics puzzle. Your arsenal is so gimped too saying how they cut your ammo reserves in half for all your guns forcing you to never use your good weapons. The only part of the game where its better than the OG is in Interloper because all of Xen was rushed in the original, but even then you don't get any ammo for all of Xen until the Nihalinth fight so all they let you use is the damn gluon gun because they give you infinite ammo. Xen drags on for too long and Gonarch's lair is basically an autoscroller instead of a boss fight. Every layout change made in Black Mesa is for the worse too I can not think of a single place all game where the layout was improved; another thing is that the marines don't act right and with how much the game loves to spam marines its a big problem because they move AND shoot which removed their balance from the original half life, turns the game kind of into a cover shooter because you constantly need to duck even though Half Life was built off Quake, Black Mesa just downgrades the game.

That wire puzzle thing is so retarded, they only put that in there because HL2 has wires, which was there to show off the physics. That was impresive sixteen years ago, what the actual hell was gained from cramming them into HL1? Also yeah the marines are not fun to fight. And maybe I'm just autistic but I don't like any of the weapon animations or sounds.

There was never a need for a remake. Even that Nvidia RTX Remix shit would make a better "remaster" than Black Mesa. I hate how they changed the layout and kinda ruined the pacing a bit compared to the original Half Life

I hope Adrivn Shvphvrd comes back in Half Life 3 but I have a feeling Valve doesn't even know or care that he exists

He was supposed to be in return to ravenholm, and I'm sure if they have any actual fans of the games working on them he'll come back somehow. I want another half life co-op game like decay but I don't think it'll ever happen.

 

[SmallAnus]

I want another half life co-op game like decay but I don't think it'll ever happen.

This could happen. Portal 2 had co-op so maybe a future Half Life game could have one

 

[Donald McDonald]

It's keyed.

 

[Steve]

That wire puzzle thing is so retarded, they only put that in there because HL2 has wires, which was there to show off the physics. That was impresive sixteen years ago, what the actual hell was gained from cramming them into HL1? Also yeah the marines are not fun to fight. And maybe I'm just autistic but I don't like any of the weapon animations or sounds.

They wanted to show off it was half life in SOOORCE so bad they let it hamper the rest of the game and I see that as a crying shame, and the marines aren't fun to fight because you gotta sink so many shots into them, my baby the MP5 was nerfed so hard, its mag was cut down to 30 shots with only 150 reserve and THREE!!! (3!!!) SMG grenades, you can't do crap with only 3 SMG grenades when the original game gave you 10 in reserve. You could comfortably take out crowds with them or use them on grunts but now you run out quick as a Malaysian child making nike shoes, so its not just the AI all of your main weapons are nerfed because the crayon muchers at crowbar collective wanted to make the game more like HL2 even though HL1 != HL2.

 

[Hagon]

This could happen. Portal 2 had co-op so maybe a future Half Life game could have one

That's what I was thinking of too, but I seriously can't expect Valve to do anything gemmy anymore. They've done fuck all since like 2011. It's genuinely sad how they just fell off a cliff because of how successful steam made them.

They wanted to show off it was half life in SOOORCE so bad they let it hamper the rest of the game and I see that as a crying shame, and the marines aren't fun to fight because you gotta sink so many shots into them, my baby the MP5 was nerfed so hard, its mag was cut down to 30 shots with only 150 reserve and THREE!!! (3!!!) SMG grenades, you can't do crap with only 3 SMG grenades when the original game gave you 10 in reserve. You could comfortably take out crowds with them or use them on grunts but now you run out quick as a Malaysian child making nike shoes, so its not just the AI all of your main weapons are nerfed because the crayon muchers at crowbar collective wanted to make the game more like HL2 even though HL1 != HL2.

I think part of the problem with trying to remake HL1 (or any game for that matter) is that if you had people who were smart enough to understand what makes it work in the first place, they'd appreciate it enough to understand that it doesn't need a remake to begin with. So instead you have people who make arbitrary changes and go "lole my game nowe and it's like frickin hl2 so now you get 3 grenaderinos instead of 10 because uhhhhhhhhhhh I said so okay???"

 

[Fortuna]

I wish I could be this passionate about something.

 

[AwesomeAndStillAlive]

Half life is an aryan gemerald straight from the depths of aryan heaven